The Integration elder didn't want to let me leave and insisted that I return to the sect immediately for my own safety. It was clear to me that he just wanted a few other elders to back him as he interrogated me but right now he had no way to stop me from leaving.
I simply caught some of the hiding demonic cultivators and forced them to tell me the location of their sect. I could have used my Spiritual Sea to invade their mind and extract the answer, but I wanted to test my Spiritual Weapon further.
It took a few tries and several split bodies until I mastered the art of cutting the concept of deception out of someone. After that, they became very chatty, even telling me some of their dark and embarrassing secrets I did not want to know.
It took four full days for me to find their sect as I might have gotten lost a few times too many. Cutting space was easy but cutting it in a way that you came out at a targeted point in space took practice. After ending up further away from the demonic sect several times, I temporarily gave up and just let my cloud carry me to my destination.
The Blood Fiend sect was perfectly hidden in the shadow of an active volcano, the surrounding wasteland, and many array formations but they couldn't hide from my all-seeing Divine Sense.
In an instant, I knew the entire sect better than even their ancestor. I saw prisoners being drained of blood to cultivate and captured women of all races being used as public furnaces. I saw a cruel and tyrannical son of destiny and I saw ancient powerful inheritances left behind in plain sight.
The Blood Fiend sect was not even that bad, it used a cultivation technique that used the blood of others to quickly increase cultivation with the risk of slowly getting insane, which in all fairness most of the people here were already beforehand.
Those furnaces I talked about were originally intended for everyone who didn't have a dual cultivation partner to dual cultivate with but most people just used them as cum dumpsters. The difference between a furnace and a dual cultivation partner was that dual cultivation equally cut the benefits between the two while a furnace would get nothing and grow weaker with each session. Only the higher-ranked disciples had private furnaces, some even with special physiques and bloodlines.
I really like this design, it was cruel to outsiders but to disciples, it was super beneficial and that was all that mattered. If the orthodox sects didn't care so much about reputation, they too would do it.
My arrival was not discovered, to them I just looked like just another random cloud passing over them, even if it was going against the wind. I took a liking to my comfy cloud, so I put it into my storage ring before falling down into enemy territory.
I passed their camouflage and defense arrays without being detected and softly landed on the volcanic stone ground. The sweet smell of fresh blood and volcanic ash reminded me of Leo's Underworld, I wonder how my family was doing.
I could wipe them out later, now I needed to secure a few opportunities.
I made my way through the sect while occasionally jumping in some fresh pools of blood like a small child would do with rain puddles until I arrived at the sect's main entrance.
On each side of the entrance stood a statue of a vicious-looking demon, holding the sign with the sect's name over the entrance. From the outside, nothing looked suspicious except their resemblance to Asura and the fact that they were left behind by the Heavenly Demon Emperor who created this sect and was said to have ascended a long time ago.
Upon closer inspection, one would notice that both statues and the sign were made from an unknown material and were so durable that even someone in the Ascension realm would have trouble putting a crack in it.
I summoned my Spiritual Weapon in the form of a giant hammer and smashed the first statue to pieces with a loud bang. While the remains of the statue flew everywhere, one thing just motionlessly floated at what would have been the head of the statue.
It was a small book with the name Fiendgod Blood Refinement. It was the original technique of the Heavenly Demon Emperor that allowed its user to absorb another cultivator's entire cultivation, essence, and bloodline. This technique was just insane, if the Heavenly Demon Emperor really mastered this technique, I have a feeling this will not be the last time I heard of him.
Who knows, maybe I will even meet him in the higher realms.
With another loud band, the second statue was smashed to pieces, leaving behind a strange pearl.
I didn't know exactly what this was by just glancing at it but I could feel some really chaotic power inside, I would even go as far as to say I felt pure chaos inside. I could already hear people approaching to see what the commotion was, so I just stuffed it into my ring.
With just a few seconds left before the elders would be here, I smashed the only remaining thing, the stone plate with the sect's name on it, and stuffed the single drop of Kun Peng blood essence into my ring before disappearing from the scene.